As we’ve already reported, Take-Two has been taking down numerous popular mods for Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City and San Andreas. Not only that, but Take-Two attempted to take down RE3; a project that reverse-engineered GTA III and Vice City.
Now while Take-Two was initially successful with this, GitHub has restored its page and the project is once again available for download. And, in a shocking turn of events, Take-Two has filed a lawsuit against the team behind it.
Before continuing, reverse engineering is, actually, legal. Think of this as emulation (more or less). This reverse-engineered project requires the original PC assets of GTA 3, otherwise, it won’t work. In short, you’ll need a legal copy of Grand Theft Auto 3 PC in order to run it. As such, Take-Two does not really have a case in its hands. Still, this did not stop the company from attempting to “bully” the team.
Take-Two notes in its lawsuit that the team violated its EULA. The company notes that its EULA forbids people from reverse engineering these classic games.
However, this EULA applies only to those that have played the games (as only gamers are asked to comply with it). Thus, those that have not played it, can still reverse engineer them.
To be honest, this reminds me of the lawsuits we saw back in the PS1 days. Sony attempted to sue the creators of the Playstation emulator, Bleem! And in case you’re wondering, Sony did not win that fight.
My guess is that Take-Two is using this lawsuit as a means to threaten the RE3 team and nothing more. The company is obviously using its resources so that it can force the modders to abandon their project. And this could work if the RE3 team cannot afford a lawyer.
Lastly, there are rumors suggesting that Take-Two is working on official remasters for GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas. This may be why the company took down these unofficial remasters of Vice City and San Andreas. And, as its CEO Strauss Zelnick has stated, it will issue takedowns if its economy is threatened.
It will be interesting to see how the RE3 team will respond to this lawsuit!
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Did not surprised me
No doubt due to a remaster / re-whatever is on the way… like pretty much any creatively bankrupt company due to following the pk/woke doctrine that leaves zero space due to someone in the twitter cesspool will always find a reason to get offended
WTF. There must be a special place in hell for t2
Retarded.
I mean OK Take2 is cuntish AF but why the hell there are still modders simping for their games and taking risks like that ?! Just let their games sink, absolutely not worth it
If a game is good, you mod it (a bad game too, but that’s another point). That’s nothing to do with simping, i usually mod games i pirate.
As a a simple user there’s no problem, i’m talking from a modder perspective, why the hell should someone create mods for games owned
by excessively corporate publishers and take risks to be sued ? I’m not even talking about all the time lost achieving this reverse-engineering work only to cancel everything in the end
Because they weren’t going after Modders for the old games, regardless of their litigious nature. So these people figured it was safe, or at least, far safer than another Publishers products.
As to why they actually do it? The challenge? The love the game and don’t care about being sued? There’s plenty of reasons as to why
the old rockstar is dead. New gta will be woke and multipalyer focused.
Maybe they know the remasters are going to be so bad that nobody will buy if mods are superior.
Remasters are cash grabs on principle meant for low IQ plebs.
This is just nonsense a extremely good lawyer needs to explain that code is like freedom of speech and therefore cannot be copied illegally.
“To be honest, this reminds me of the lawsuits we saw back in the PS1 days. Sony attempted to sue the creators of the Playstation emulator, Bleem! And in case you’re wondering, Sony did not win that fight.”
I was just thinking that lol before i even finished to read this
Modders must come out as LGBTQ. T2 will get shat on the face.
And POC.
Only card you can pull these days that’s safe.
Take two are so scummy.
Living up to its name, I guess.
Dont they have anything better do…!
No, they sit on their a*s all day and collect Shark Card money.
T2 F**KK U!
People should unite and boycott their games…what a POS!
Stormcuck or SJW?
Who will get this one right? Any bets?
They are whites, they are part of the Caucasian race, it is called ethnicity. But due to brevity sake, I wrote race. Obviously that nuance is lost on you, and your inbreeding. Either way, the question remains, what you wrote, is it SJW or stormcuck?
I am willing to bet SJW.
Posting it again because a leftist(Stormcuck) reported it.
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Why would it have to be a legal copy?
I feel like telling us that the “EULA applies only to those that have played the games” but failing to link us to EULA or at least directly quote from it so we can read it for our selves, is poor journalism.
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Again because a communist stormcuck who worships the one nut Hitler loves censorship and reported it. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7e53fe7f8ecf0f027a5db4b5218380c3740e1692da7a1e6570d51fd8ba205e45.jpg
What a scumbag company. Especially when their lawyers should be smart enough there is mountains of legal precedent protecting exactly what this is And convince the idiots at the top as such..
Just more corporate abuse of the legal system.
What a scummy f*king company
The problem with litigation is that it costs so much. The last lawyer that I hired back in the mid 80s costed me a fortune. Hell, he charged $100 just to write a letter that probably his secretary spent 5 minutes on. That is why the little guy can’t afford to go up against a major company and just gives up.